Windows Western European

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Windows Western European is a character encoding (code page 1252) widely used on Microsoft Windows systems to represent Western European languages using the Latin alphabet.

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Windows Western European canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf character encoding
code page
alsoKnownAs CP1252
linked to: Windows-1252

Windows-1252
code page 1252
basedOn ISO 8859-1
linked to: ISO/IEC 8859-1
category Windows character encodings
characterSetType extended ASCII
codePageNumber 1252
commonlyMisidentifiedAs ISO-8859-1
linked to: ISO/IEC 8859-1
containsControlCharacters true
containsCurrencySymbols true
containsDiacritics true
containsEuroSign true
containsLigatures true
containsPunctuationCharacters true
containsQuotationMarks true
differsFrom ISO 8859-1 in range 0x80–0x9F
encodingType single-byte encoding
extends ISO 8859-1
linked to: ISO/IEC 8859-1
hasCodeUnitSize 8 bits
hasEuroSignCodePoint 0x80
ianaStatus registered
introducedBy Microsoft
mimeName windows-1252
supersededBy UTF-8
supports most Western European languages using Latin script
supportsLanguage Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Italian
Norwegian
linked to: Norwegian language

Portuguese
Spanish
Swedish
targetRegion Western Europe
targetScript Latin alphabet
usedFor documents
graphical user interface text
legacy data
usedIn HTML documents on Windows
email messages on Windows
usedOnPlatform Microsoft Windows
linked to: Windows

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Windows-1252 alsoKnownAs Windows Western European